News Recently, WW received an email from a reader incensed over a "weird insidious virus attack on ice cream." Her complaint: Ice-cream container sizes are shrinking, but prices aren't. And that's true-tha ... More
WHEN SIZE MATTERS: THE HALF-GALLON CHALLENGE
How typhoons in Madagascar are cheating ice-cream lovers and stressing out Oregon's Umpqua Dairy.
News Recently, WW received an email from a reader incensed over a "weird insidious virus attack on ice cream." Her complaint: Ice-cream container sizes are shrinking, but prices aren't. And that's true-tha ... More
THE STEM-CELL SHUFFLE
Pro-life Republican Sen. Gordon Smith backs embryonic stem-cell research. Top OHSU stem-cell scientist doesn't. Huh?
News The debate in Congress over embryonic stem-cell research puts Oregon Republican Sen. Gordon Smith and the state's most influential stem-cell scientist in very unexpected corners.Smith, a longtime frie ... More
HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
Penn Jillette talks about his controversial, profanity-fueled documentary, The Aristocrats, and how bad taste makes America a better place.
Featured Stories Does obscenity transcend party lines? "It's not a red state or blue state thing," says Penn Jillette of his and fellow comic Paul Provenza's new documentary The Aristocrats, a joyful cornucopia of sex ... More
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
It was the best of parking meters, it was the worst of parking meters.
News When solar-powered parking pay stations popped up on Portland sidewalks three summers ago, residents examined them with a wary curiosity befitting alien artifacts.A handful of Portlanders wrote annoye ... More
ODOT'S PEAK AT THE FUTURE
State report forecasts the end of cheap oil - and it could be soon.
News In theory, there are few things less terrifying than an Oregon Department of Transportation report detailing a pilot program to tax motorists by mileage driven.But tucked into the 55-page report on th ... More
Ralph Bagley
The Oregon-based designer of the biggest Christian video game ever talks about a new crusade (and Grand Theft Auto).
Q & A Like joystick-wielding paladins, would-be Christian video-game moguls will descend on Portland from July 28 to July 30. Officially, they're congregating for the fifth annual Christian Game Developers ... More
GREAT BALLS
GI Joe's busted for selling phony Titleists.
News GI Joe's, the Wilsonville-based sporting-goods chain with 24 locations across the Northwest, finds itself in the legal rough this spring for selling counterfeit golf balls.Acushnet Company, which manu ... More
STEPHANIE SNOW
Beaverton mom wants to clean up TV.
Q & A Stephanie Snow is the Parents Television Council's newest weapon in the national council's fight against violence, profanity and T&A on TV. In May, Snow founded the Portland chapter of the council, wh ... More
HOW DOES YOUR (URBAN) GARDEN GROW?
Answer: with the city's help.
News Quietly rusting pump stations and litter-strewn vacant lots throughout Portland could look a lot more pastoral in the future.A recent inventory of city-owned land conducted by graduate students from P ... More
TOUR DE WORKFORCE
Iraqi union leaders visit Portland.
News The emergence of the General Union of Oil Employees in post-Saddam Iraq presents a paradox: The U.S. occupation brought the freedom needed to organize, but the group remains illegal and much of its wo ... More
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The founder of a Portland-based mag for oppressed women and kids is PDO (pretty damn optimistic) about the world. Should You Move to Brooklyn?
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WW drops in on a true Portland-style financial seminar. ODOT'S PEAK AT THE FUTURE
State report forecasts the end of cheap oil - and it could be soon.
When it comes to the outdoors, these Oregonians get a bull's-eye. Hogil Pharmaceutical Corporation
Ralph Bagley
The Oregon-based designer of the biggest Christian video game ever talks about a new crusade (and Grand Theft Auto). Q Madp
If there's a local funeral for U.S. soldiers, this photographer is there. Baby, You Look Like A Pimp
Portland-based Pimpfants incites a national tantrum with its line of baby clothes. Shifting Fortunes
Two fortune-tellers and a century of clairvoyance in Portland. Jensine Larsen
The founder of a Portland-based mag for oppressed women and kids is PDO (pretty damn optimistic) about the world. Should You Move to Brooklyn?
Another Portlander’s view. A peek at Peak Oil, Inc.
WW drops in on a true Portland-style financial seminar. ODOT'S PEAK AT THE FUTURE
State report forecasts the end of cheap oil - and it could be soon.
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